The growing environmental impact of AI data centers’ energy demands YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

I appreciate you as well, Stardust!
Happy #EarthDay!
Please follow @stardustbluepr.com who fights tirelessly against the tremendous threat of AI!

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We need term limits not just for the Supreme Court, but for Congress. No one should serve for a lifetime or even decades. If we actually want a government that represents the will of the people and responds to today’s challenges, we need new leadership, and that means term limits.

Happy Earth Day.

Corpus Christi weighs water curtailment plan amid crisis A proposal the city council is expected to discuss includes asking customers to cut their water use by 25% and imposing additional fees on water used beyond certain limits.

"The drought has coincided with a years-long effort by city leaders to attract refineries and other industry to the Corpus Christi Bay, driving up water demand. Those industrial facilities now consume as much as 60% of the city’s water supply, according to local officials."

Leaving this here. 🧵

Witness the mesmerizing murmuration of starlings in Italy, a stunning display of nature's coordination and beauty as they dance through the sky in unison.

This Earth Day, help us protect farm workers from pesticide exposure This #EarthDay, we wish we could count on the federal government to protect farmworkers from toxic pesticides. But in 2026, it looks like we need to do it ourselves. Make your gift today to help bring...

Today is #EarthDay. We wish we could count on the federal government to protect farmworkers from toxic pesticides and other environmental dangers.
Sadly, in 2026, it looks like we need to do it ourselves. Make a gift today. act.seiu.org/a/earthday20... or
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guardrails 4.21

The Iran war won’t end when the fighting stops. Even a “short” war leaves a long economic shadow.

The real costs are just getting started:
• Higher gas prices that stick
• Inflation that lingers
• Rising interest rates
• Slower economic growth

Read more: bit.ly/4u0ly0K
#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks

How to Stop A Data Center in Your Backyard ~ L.A. TACO These are lessons from San Gabriel Valley neighbors and activists who outsmarted developers and lobbyists.

I also want to shout @lataco.bsky.social's great feature on the organizing in Monterey Park, aptly titled "How to Stop a Data Center in Your Backyard":

Staged assassinations, wife of supreme court judge participant in January 6th, Epstein Files, rogue drunk FBI director, director of department of war reciting Pulp Fiction as a prayer...

This isn't normal, America!

There is no going back to something. The experiment failed and is over.

#RIP🇺🇲

Scientists estimate that 1 in 4 native bee species in North America is at an elevated risk of extinction. Global assessments suggest that approximately 40% of invertebrate pollinator species (including bees and butterflies) are currently facing extinction risks.
Center for Biological Diversity
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8/ WIRED has been warning: AI powered swarms now generate, coordinate, and amplify narratives faster than any fact check can catch up. Creation isn't the bottleneck anymore. Speed is. And speed can and is being purchased by billionaires seeking to divide us. www.wired.com/story/ai-pow...

Digital drawing in white ink against a black background of a sweet donkey in profile facing left. Only their head and neck are visible and their short, upright mane is "dyed" the pink, blue and white of the trans pride flag.

Almost time for #TransArtMay, which is a thing I made up where I draw mostly animals of all kinds with the trans pride flag colors incorporated in some fashion.

What kinds of creatures would you like to see? Insects, fish, birds, mammals, invertebrates etc welcome! I could use ideas, help me out?

DOUNANA (without us) SIBA & MONKYMAN YouTube video by MONKyMAN

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'Dounana' sung by Berlin-based singer and composer SIBA - صِبا from Damascus, Syria.

Kevin Warsh just lost me. He argues he's going to be an independent Fed Chair, but refuses to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election. If you can't state simple facts when you're in the political spotlight, you aren't independent. You're a coward.

First the Cherokee, Now the Palestinians Revisiting the history of U.S. attitudes toward the Cherokee Nation shows how consistent the rhetoric of oppressors is across time and place. The rationalizations for ethnic cleansing do not change.

30 yrs aftr Norman Finkelstein wrote this article, “First the Cherokee, now the Palestinian,” nothing has changed. Current Affairs re-released the essay, which shows the similarities between tactics used against my Cherokee ancestors & Palestinians today.

Over 40,000 people are currently incarcerated for Cannabis. Not a SINGLE Epstein files co-conspirator has been arrested.

We call ourselves "intelligent," yet the humblest fungus can decompose waste and build soil, a tree can harness solar energy, and a wetland can purify water—all without toxic byproducts. True intelligence is learning from these systems, not bulldozing them.

I don't know why this is so hard for some people to grasp. If we extend our use of fossil gas, rather than going all-out for grid batteries, heat pumps and induction hobs, we extend our dependence on *foreign* sources of gas, regardless of whether we also use the UK's last remaining reserves. 🧵

China has responded to Trump's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

Keep in mind that everywhere ICE is, your local police have failed you, and abandoned their oath to serve and protect. Zero Ice officers have been arrested. They assault, the kidnap, they kill, and they all walk free. Your local police treat ICE as above the law. The betrayal of duty is staggering.

😱Irish journalist couldn’t hold back! Here’s what Russians are doing. Kremlin stays silent about it YouTube video by War & Politics 24

Kherson was never just a dot on a map. This is the heart of the free 🇺🇦 south, but today 🇷🇺 is trying to erase it. They've turned this thriving city into a testing ground for modern terror. It's no longer just shelling, it's a deliberate hunt for civilians.

3/5

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So Trump and his Pentagon MAGA sycophants threatened Pope Leo's ambassador, saying:

"America has the power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side.”

Pope Leo just doubled down on his message.

Please repost if you stand with him as we do! 🔥👏🏻

The emerging danger of post-hurricane heat waves » Yale Climate Connections With global warming making people increasingly dependent on air conditioning, power failures from hurricanes followed by heat waves are creating increasingly hazardous risks to health.

The emerging danger of post-hurricane heat waves 🔥🔥

With global warming making people increasingly dependent on air conditioning, power failures from hurricanes followed by heat waves are creating increasingly hazardous risks to health.

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Can we stop pretending the Trump administration is simply a bunch of amateurish, incompetent fools trying to reform the US Government. They are deliberately breaking things. It's sabotage, not reform.

They starved the country on purpose and called it responsibility.
A government that always has money for bombs and never enough for people is not broke. It is morally bankrupt.

-Tony Pentimalli-Excerpt from "The Budget of Betrayal" April 9,2026

rump’s actions as an AMORAL POS TRAITOR to the United States has been known since 2017. All the shit happening now and yet to come is directly the fault of the repubs in the House, Senate, SCOTUS and the members of his cabinet. The only ones with the constitutional and lawful powers to remove him.

First time I’ve seen bison in the wild, the largest mammal in Europe.

TT: Mateusz Piesiak

I think it's time for us to stop taking oaths. They are as meaningless and as enforceable as pinky swearing.

Integrity is not held together by oaths. It is held together by honest people that have the courage of their convictions.